15 Reasons Mister Rogers Was the Best Neighbor Ever
Amazingly, within 48 hours the car was left in the exact spot where it was taken from, with an apology on the dashboard. It read, “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”
Saint Fred
Friday, June 1, 2007
Where plastic goes to die
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Our oceans are turning into plastic…are we?
He had the time and the curiosity to try a new route, one that would lead the vessel through the eastern corner of a 10-million-square-mile oval known as the North Pacific subtropical gyre.
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It began with a line of plastic bags ghosting the surface, followed by an ugly tangle of junk: nets and ropes and bottles, motor-oil jugs and cracked bath toys, a mangled tarp. Tires. A traffic cone. Moore could not believe his eyes. Out here in this desolate place, the water was a stew of plastic crap. It was as though someone had taken the pristine seascape of his youth and swapped it for a landfill.
Engineering as it should be done
Saturday, April 21, 2007
What’s an engineer’s worst nightmare? To realize that the supports he designed for a skyscraper like Citicorp Center are flawed–and hurricane season is approaching.
So he fixed it.
Elliott Leyton on Virginia Tech
Thursday, April 19, 2007
globeandmail.com: School shootings
By the way, the 800,000 tutsi and hutu victims of the genocide in Rwanda were killed primarily with knives and machetes. And if you want to kill a lot of people but don’t have a gun, there are many other ways to do it: derail a train, start a fire, drive a pickup truck into a school yard or shopping concourse, make a bomb. So all that happens is that the cause of the murder changes.
